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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterTom Blyth is headed to Panem. The actor, best known for “Billy the Kid” and “The Gilded Age,” has been cast as young President Coriolanus Snow in Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games” prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”The movie is based on the 2020 book of the same name, which is set decades before the exploits of Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games.” That means the beloved heroine, a role that propelled Jennifer Lawrence to superstardom, does not appear in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which instead centers on the man (portrayed by Donald Sutherland in the original trilogy) who eventually becomes the tyrannical president of Panem.

Blyth currently stars on the Epix series “Billy the Kid,” and now will be the face of a film that Lionsgate hopes will revive its most lucrative franchise with four films that combined grossed nearly $3 billion at the global box office. Donald Sutherland starred in those four films as Snow, who leads a dystopian nation where 12 vassal districts are required each year to sacrifice two of their children for a televised fight to the death as punishment for a failed rebellion. Based on Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel of the same name, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” takes place 64 years before the events of the “Hunger Games” and chronicles the start of Snow’s rise to power, starting as a mentor to Lucy Gray, a teen girl from District 12 chosen to compete in the Hunger Games.

Lionsgate has officially announced a release date for the upcoming The Hunger Games prequel movie.

Lionsgate announced at the end of their CinemaCon session today that the Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will finally hit theaters on Nov. 17, 2023.

The prequel, titled “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” is based on the novel of the same name written by series creator Suzanne Collins will follow Coriolanus Snow, the future tyrannical leader of the nation of Panem, when he was just 18 years old. As one of the top students of Panem’s Academy, which is a school for the country’s elite, Snow is selected as a mentor for Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute selected to compete in the Hunger Games for District 12, the home of Snow’s future adversary Katniss Everdeen.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterThe odds were ever in CinemaCon-goers favor on Thursday night, when Lionsgate brought a teaser for “Hunger Games” prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” to the annual trade show for theater owners.The clip didn’t show any footage from the movie, which is currently in production, nor did it reveal who is in the film.Lionsgate also announced the movie will be released in theaters on Nov. 17, 2023.

It’s good news for fans of “The Hunger Games”.

Joe Drake, the chairman of Lionsgate motion picture group, is opening up with a new update on the upcoming prequel movie for The Hunger Games.

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth have moved on from the Hunger Games franchise with success.Based on author Suzanne Collins’ young adult books of the same name, 2012’s The Hunger Games, 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, 2014’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 blew up at the box office and became a constant topic of conversation in pop culture.

Twilight Saga book by Stephenie Meyer (the very long-awaited Midnight Sun) and a new Hunger Games book from Suzanne Collins (a lively President Snow prequel titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), IMDb TV has announced that it is also getting back into the spirit of the early 2010s YA book-to-film bonanza by adding every single Twilight, Hunger Games, and Divergent movie to its free streaming library next month!Yep, that's right.

If you know Suzanne Collins’s dystopian Hunger Games trilogy, you know Coriolanus Snow. He’s Katniss Everdeen’s nemesis and the tyrannical president of Panem, where every year 24 kids from the districts are selected to fight to a televised death. He’s a sadist who smells of roses and has a talent for crushing both spirits and heartbeats. In short, he keeps the bloodbath going.

A decade after the Hunger Games series had apparently ended, readers were clearly ready for more. Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes sold more 500,000 copies in its first week, even as many of the country's bookstores were closed or offering limited service because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A decade after the “Hunger Games” series had apparently ended, readers were clearly ready for more.

Suzanne Collins is revisiting the world of Panem and The Hunger Games in her new prequel book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Scholastic), released Tuesday.Only this time, no more is the telling of beloved characters such as Katniss Everdeen or Peeta Mellark, but instead the spotlight is placed on villain Coriolanus Snow.

Suzanne Collins’ long awaited prequel to the Hunger Games series will be published in the UK on Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – The odds are back in their favour.

Francis Lawrence will return as director for 'The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes'